MQ-25A refuels US Navy E-2D for the first time

The US Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation programme completed its first aerial refuelling flight with an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye on August 18 during a sortie from MidAmerica Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois. The Boeing-owned MQ-25A Stingray test asset, known as T1, transferred fuel to an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, the newest variant of the E-2 platform, which was upgraded with an aerial refuelling capability in 2019. Capt Chad Reed, the US Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation (PMA-268) programme manager, said: “Once operational, the MQ-25